Change-maker.



No. 672,6l8.

Patented Apr. 23, l90l. S. T. FISK.

CHANGE MAKER.

(Application filed Apr. 9, 1900.;

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SAMUEL TATE FISK, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

CHANGE-MAKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,618, dated April 23, 1901.

Application filed April 9, 1900. Serial No. 12,225. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL TATE FIsK, a citizen of the United States, residing at T- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Change-Makers; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description. of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains 'to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in what are termed change-makers, equally adapted for money drawers or tills and also as a coin-holder, so called. It has for its objects principally to greatly simplify con struotion, lessen cost of manufacture, expedite or aid the making of change in money transactions, especially in mercantile busimess, to promote facility, utility, and convenience, and to otherwise improve the device.

It consists, primarily,'of a serially tubular or chambered casting or holder adapted to be applied for use in the required manner. Said holder has suitably applied thereto slides or plungers for properly discharging or expelling the required coin or change. It also has an auxiliary or supplemental coin -holder attached thereto, adapted to be propped into position upon the aforesaid holder or changemaker.

Further matters of detail as to construction and arrangement of the parts will-be fully disclosed hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

It will be understood that latitude is allowed herein as to details, as they may be changed or varied at will without departing from the spirit of my invention and the same yet remain intact and be protected.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section. Fig. 4 is a plan view. Fig. 5 is an inverted view.

In carrying out my invention I may cast or construct the holder or receptacle 1 of the change-maker with a series or plurality of approximately circular or tubular chambers or cells 2 to receive coins of the required denominations or values, being accordingly gradated or varied in cross-sectional area or radius, as will be readily appreciated. The cells or chambers thus constructed provide for readily viewing the coins laterally and determining when the same need replenishing, as will be readily understood.

The casting or holder 1 has integral or cast with the bottom edges of the Walls of its cells pendent rib-like strips or guides 3, arranged intermediately of the chambers or cells 2, and brazed upon these strips or guides and to one another are plates, making practically a continuous or single bottom plate t. This arrangement provides suitable spaces 5 immediately under or in alinement with the cells or chambers 2 to receive slides or plungers 6, fitting and guided snugly therein between the guide-strips 3 and the bottom surface of the holder 1 and bottom plate. The bottom plate 4 has a series or plurality of semicircular recesses or notches P in its forward edge, each arranged in coincidence with a portion of the radius of each cell or chamber 2, and the slides or plungers 6 are each provided with a circular opening or hole 6, of the same cross-section or radius as that of the cell or chamber 2 above it. Therefore the bottom coin in said chamber or cell will normally rest upon the coincident slide or plunger, and consequently be carried forward as the slide or plunger is actuated and, as the inner or rear edge of the opening of said plunger or slide registers with the forward edge of the notch or recess of the bottom plate, will drop or be expelled below into the hand of the operator held thereunder and actuating or operating said slide or plunger. The slides or plungers 6 are provided at the rear or inner ends of reduced rearward extensions 6 thereof with preferably disk-like fingerpieces or buttons 6, preferably concaved'or dished upon their rear or finger-engaged surfaces. These slides or plungers are normally held with their openings in alinement or co incidence with the chambers or cells of the holder 1 by the action of preferably flat springs 8, with their ends bearing by way of convenience upon the rear surfaces of the disks or buttons 6 and secured to said holders, respectively. Suitably secured to the rear of the holder, near the bottom thereof, are plates 6, which serve as stops to prevent rearward displacem'ent of the slides or followers. The forward movement of said slides or followers is limited, preferably, by a pendent flange 9 of a ledge or shelf 9, suitably secured to the lower projecting edge of the holder. This, however, may be efiected in any other suitable wa 7 As a preferable way of providing for supporting the holder 1 in position it may have. cast or brazed thereon socket-pieceso'rtubes 10, arranged at the rear corner edges thereof, to receive standards or supports of suitable construction, which it'is not necessaryh'e'i'e to show. Also as an improvised means to elevate the keys of the coin-dropping slides, &c. above the resting surface when the holder 1 is removed from its supporting-standards said support may have suitably secured thereto at convenientpoints pendent studs or projections ll, opposed to the pendent flange 9 for-that purpose. In'order to provide for conveniently inserting'said holder inplace upon and lifting it from or off its support, it may be furnished with suitable finger-holds 12,

. arranged near its upper edge upon the sides.

To contain additional coins to draw upon in replenishing the cells or chambers 2 of the holder 1, I provide anauxiliary or supplemental holder or receptacle 13, substantially the same in construction-as the holder 1, with its back plate 13 provided at the inn'er longitudinal edge with an inwardly-bent ledgeorhook'l l. This arrangement-provides for the attachment of said auxiliary coinholder to the coin-holder l,-the latter having a preferably crooked rod or wire 14 so secured to said holder 1 at the upper edge of its back portion as to permit said hook to engage it, and thus permit the auxiliary coin-holder to be -pivoted inwplace. This allows the tilting forwardof the auxiliary coin holder to deliver its coins into'the cells or chambers of the main coin holder or changemaker when the latter, as above. noted, require replenishing, The auxiliary coin-holder is suitably held or propped in position in a downward and rearward inchnation, as shown, by means preferably of a {prop or lever 15, suitably pivoted to the back plate. The upper or outer end of the'prop 15. normally engages or bears against the back :plate of the auxiliary coin-holder and isweighted, asat 15?, to cause said lever or; .prop to gravitate ordrop into such aposition asto cause said auxiliary coin-holder to 00-- cupy apredetermine'd inclination, as shown., When not in use or for convenience in handling or-shipment, the auxiliary coin-holder.

;may be folded back against the maincoinholder of the ,change-n1aker by simply moving the inner end of said propor lever upward, allowing the auxiliary coin-holder to assume such position. The lifting or raising of the auxiliary coin -"hfolder'will allow the gravity 'prop or lever 15 "to automatically assume its propping position, and thus retain said coin-holder without further manipu1a tion of the same, as would otherwise be the case, "as "will be readily appreciated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pateht, is-

l. A change maker, comprising a coinholder having a series of gradated or varying *siz' ed cll'sor 'c'hambe'r's and an "auxiliary or "supplemental coin-holder adapted to be pivoted or tilted upon the first named coinholder, substantially as set forth.

2. A change maker, comprising a coinholder having a series ofgradated orvaryingsized'c'ells orchambers an auxiliary or supplemental coin-holder similarlyfurnished and adapted to hepivotedortilted upon'the first i named coin holdeiyfslibstantially as specified. a I 3. A change 7 maker, comprising "a coinholder having a series of gra dat'e'd'olr varying cellsorcharnbers and an' auxiliarycoin-holder adapted to bepivote d-orsupported iupon-the firstmamed coin-holder and means for'p'ropping orupholding'said auxiliary coih holder, substantially as set forth. i a A. A change maker, comprising a coinholder having a series ofgrad'at edor vary n "cells or chainbers,an'dan auxiliary coinholder similarly furnished and adapted to bepivoted or hung upon the first named coin-"holder and a pivoted prop or lever connectedto'saidlahxiliary coin;h0lder a'nd adapted to engage the first-named coin-holder, substantially as described. V V v 5. A change maker, "com prising a coinholder having a series of gra datedor varying- ;sized cells orcha iibers, the latter 'coin holder having a hooked'longitudihal edge eqgagin a crookfed wire or rod secured 'totheZfOT-mer coin-holder, substantially as described. I I 6, change --maker, comprising a coinholder having a series of cells or hanibrs of varying cross-sectional areas, and having a crooked wire or rod secured'theretmhear or at its'upper edge, at the back, and anauxir iary coin-holder having an inward or 'rearward extending hooked edge adaptedto en- .gagesaid rod or wire, a nd a propping-lever connectedlto said auxiliary coin-holder'and adapted to bear against thejback'ofthe'firstnamed coin holde r, su bstan tiallyas'speoified.

In testimony whereof I affix my'sig'nature in;presen'ce of two Witnesses.

"SAMU EL TATE FISK.

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W. A, ROBERTSON, A. MOWAYNE. 

